EP1237531A1

EP1237531A1 - Bleaching composition for keratinic fibres, containing a thickening polymer with an ether plastic skeleton

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Publication number: EP1237531A1
Application number: EP00981415A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Frédéric Legrand; Delphine Allard
Original assignee: LOreal SA
Current assignee: LOreal SA
Priority date: 1999-12-08
Filing date: 2000-11-10
Publication date: 2002-09-11
Anticipated expiration: 2020-11-10
Also published as: CA2393578A1; DE60033685T2; DE60033685D1; AU779323B2; FR2802092A1; FR2802092B1; US6800096B1; ES2283332T3; BR0016479A; WO2001041725A1; EP1237531B1; MXPA02005603A; JP2003516337A; AU1867001A; ATE355046T1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a ready to use composition, a process and a kit for bleaching keratin fibers, and in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising at least one oxidizing agent and at least one thickening polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton. This novel composition, process and kit can be used to bleach hair without running or falls in viscosity over time.

Description

DECOLORATION COMPOSITION FOR KERATINIC FIBERS

COMPRISING A THICKENING POLYMER

WITH AMINOPLASTE-ETHER SKELETON.

The present invention relates to a composition for bleaching keratin fibers and in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising at least one oxidizing agent and at least one thickening polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton.

It is known to bleach keratin fibers and in particular human hair, with bleaching compositions containing one or more oxidizing agents. Among the oxidizing agents conventionally used, mention may be made of hydrogen peroxide or of compounds capable of producing hydrogen peroxide by hydrolysis, such as urea peroxide or persalts such as perborates, percarbonates and persulfates, hydrogen peroxide and persulfates being particularly preferred.

Said bleaching compositions are mainly in the form of anhydrous products (powders or creams) containing alkaline compounds (amines and alkali silicates), and a peroxygenated reagent such as persulfates,

- Perborates or percarbonates, of ammonium or alkali metals, which are diluted at the time of use with an aqueous composition of hydrogen peroxide.

The bleaching compositions can also result from the mixture, at the time of use, of the anhydrous peroxygenated reagent powder with an aqueous composition containing the alkaline compounds and another aqueous composition containing the hydrogen peroxide.

The bleaching compositions are also in the form of thickened aqueous compositions of hydrogen peroxide, ready to use.

By “ready-to-use composition” is meant, within the meaning of the invention, the composition intended to be applied as it is to keratin fibers, that is to say that it can be stored as it is before use or result from extemporaneous mixture of two or more compositions. To localize the bleaching product when applied to the hair so that it does not run on the face or outside the areas which it is proposed to bleach, use of traditional thickeners has hitherto been used. such as crosslinked polyacrylic acid, hydroxyethylcelluloses, certain polyurethanes, waxes, and in addition, in the case of aqueous bleaching compositions, to mixtures of nonionic surfactants of HLB (Hydrophilic Lipophilic Balance), which, suitably chosen, generate the gelling effect when diluted with water and / or surfactants.

However, the Applicant has found that the thickening systems mentioned above did not make it possible to obtain sufficiently powerful and homogeneous bleaches and left the hair coarse. Furthermore, it also found that the ready-to-use bleaching compositions containing the oxidizing agent (s), and in addition the thickening systems of the prior art did not allow a sufficiently precise application without drips or drops in viscosity in the time.

Now, after significant research carried out on the question, the Applicant has now discovered that it is possible to obtain ready-to-use bleaching compositions which do not flow and therefore remain well located at the point of application, and which also make it possible to obtain powerful and homogeneous bleaches while leaving the hair less coarse if an effective amount of a polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton is introduced into the composition.

These discoveries are the basis of the present invention.

A subject of the present invention is thus a ready-to-use composition for bleaching keratin fibers, in particular human keratin fibers, such as the hair, comprising, in a medium suitable for bleaching, at least one oxidizing agent, which is characterized in that it also contains at least one polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton. According to the invention, said composition is anhydrous or aqueous. When the ready-to-use composition according to the invention results from the extemporaneous mixture of several compositions, the polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton may be present in one or more or in all of the mixed compositions.

In this way, the polymer with an aminoplast-ether backbone can be present in an anhydrous composition in the form of preferably powdery powder or cream and / or in one or more aqueous compositions.

Preferably according to the invention, the polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton is present in at least one aqueous composition which is mixed at the time of use with an anhydrous composition in the form of powder or cream containing at least one oxidizing agent. . Even more preferably, one of these aqueous compositions mixed with the anhydrous composition contains hydrogen peroxide.

The invention also relates to a process for bleaching keratin fibers, and in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, using the ready-to-use bleaching composition as described according to the invention.

The invention also relates to bleaching devices or "Kits" for packaging containing such a ready-to-use composition.

Thus, a device with two compartments comprises a first compartment containing at least one powder or an anhydrous cream or an aqueous composition, and the second compartment an aqueous composition, at least one of the two compartments containing at least one oxidizing agent and the at least one of the two compartments containing at least one polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton.

Another "kit" with several compartments may consist of a first compartment containing an anhydrous powder or cream and two other compartments each containing an aqueous composition, at least one of the three compartments containing at least one oxidizing agent and at least one of the three compartments containing at least one polymer with an aminoplast-ether backbone.

However, other characteristics, aspects, objects and advantages of the invention will appear even more clearly on reading the description and the examples which follow.

By aminoplast-ether is understood within the meaning of the present invention, any product resulting from the condensation of an aldehyde with an amine or an amide.

By aminoplast-ether is also meant in the sense of the present invention, any structural unit formed of an aminoplast residue and a divalent hydrocarbon residue linked to the aminoplast residue by an ether bond.

The polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton used according to the invention are preferably chosen from those containing at least one unit of structure (I) below:

in which :

-AMP is an aminoplast residue with alkylene units,

-R denotes a hydrogen atom, a C-1C4 alkyl radical or an acyl radical

C1 C4,

-RO- is a divalent alkyleneoxy residue, -p denotes a positive integer, the group or groups OR being linked to the alkylene units of the AMP residue. Preferably, the polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are chosen from those containing at least one unit of structure (II) as follows:

where: -AMP, R, RO < _| and p have the same meaning as before,

- RO2 is a hydrophobic group different from RO linked to AMP via a heteroatom and comprising at least two carbon atoms, and, -q is a positive integer.

Even more preferably, the polymers of the invention have the following formulas (III) and (III) bis:

R2- (lllbis)

in which: AMP, R, RO-1, RO2, P and q have the same meaning as before, R2 or

R3, identical or different, represent a terminal group which can denote a hydrogen atom, a group RO-j H, a group RO2H, a group AMP (OR) p or any monofunctional group such as alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkylaryl , alkyloxyalkyle, aryloxyalkyle, cycloalkoxyalkyle, a being a number greater than 1 and preferably greater than 2.

The aminoplast residues carrying their OR groups integrated into the polymers of the invention can be chosen without limitation from the following structures (IV) to (XV):

in which :

R has the same meaning as before,

R1 denotes C1C4 alkyl, y is a number at least equal to 2, x denotes 0 or 1.

Preferably, the aminoplast residue (s) carrying their OR groups are chosen from those of structure (XVI) below:

in which R, p, and x have the same meanings as before.

The divalent alkyleneoxy residues are preferably those corresponding to the diols of general formula (XVII) below: HO- (ZO) y- (Z1 (Z2O) w) t- (Z'O) y'-Z3OH (XVII), y and y 'being numbers ranging from 0 to 1000, t and w being numbers ranging from 0 to 10, Z, Z', Z2 and Z3 are C2C4 alkylene radicals and preferably radicals

-CH2-CH (Z4) - and -CH2-CH (Z4) -CH2-,

Z1 being a linear or cyclic radical, branched or not, aromatic or not, with or without one or more heteroatoms and having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, Z4 denoting a hydrogen atom or a C1C4 alkyl radical or a C1C3 acyl radical, it being understood that at least one of the radicals Z4 of the radicals Z, Z ',

Z2 and Z3 is different from acyl.

Preferably Z4 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical. Even more preferably t = 0 and Z, Z 'and Z3 denote -CH2CH2-, and at least one of y or y' is different from 0. The compounds of formula (XVII) are then polyethylene glycols.

The polymers of formula (I) according to the invention are in particular described in US Pat. No. 5,914,373, the content of which forms an integral part of the invention.

As polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton of formula (I), mention may in particular be made of the PURE-THIX L products [PEG-180 / Octoxynol-40 / TMMG

Copolymer (INCI name)], PURE-THIX M [PEG-180 / Laureth-50 / TMMG Copolymer (INCI name)], and PURE-THIX HH [Polyether-1 (INCI name)] sold by SUD-CHEMIE.

The polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are preferably used in an amount which can vary from approximately 0.01 to 10% by weight of the total weight of the ready-to-use dye composition. More preferably, this amount varies from about 0.1 to 5% by weight.

The oxidizing agents which can be used according to the invention are preferably chosen from hydrogen peroxide and the compounds releasing hydrogen peroxide by hydrolysis, such as urea peroxide and persalts.

As persalts, persulfates and perborates and in particular sodium persulfate or potassium persulfate can be used according to the invention. As other oxidizing agents, mention may be made of chlorites. It is also possible to use an enzymatic system generating oxidizing species and in particular hydrogen peroxide. As an example of such enzymatic systems, mention may be made of oxidoreductases with two electrons associated with their donor in the presence of air, and more particularly the uricase, uric acid and air system. Organic peroxides can also be used.

The concentration of hydrogen peroxide in the ready-to-use compositions can vary from 2 to 40 volumes. That of the other oxidizing compounds, in particular the compounds capable of forming hydrogen peroxide by hydrolysis, can vary from 0.1 to 25% by weight approximately relative to the total weight of the composition.

The composition according to the invention may also contain, in addition to the oxidizing agents defined above, direct dyes. These direct dyes can in particular then be chosen from nitro, azo or anthraquinone dyes, whether they are neutral, acidic or cationic.

More particularly, the compositions according to the invention may also contain, at least one cationic or amphoteric substantive polymer.

Within the meaning of the present invention, the expression “cationic polymer” designates any polymer containing cationic groups and / or groups which can be ionized into cationic groups.

The cationic polymers which can be used in accordance with the present invention can be chosen from all those already known per se as improving the cosmetic properties of the hair, namely in particular those described in patent application EP-A-337 354 and in French patents FR- 2,270,846, 2,383,660, 2,598,611, 2,470,596 and 2,519,863.

The preferred cationic polymers are chosen from those which contain units comprising primary, secondary, tertiary and / or quaternary amine groups which can either be part of the main polymer chain or be carried by a lateral substituent directly connected thereto.

The cationic polymers used generally have a number average molecular mass of between 500 and 5.10 ⁶ approximately, and preferably between 10 ³ and 3.10 ⁶ approximately. Among the cationic polymers, mention may more particularly be made of polymers of the polyamine, polyaminoamide and quaternary polyammonium type. These are known products. They are described in particular in French patents 2,505,348 or 2,542,997. Among the said polymers, there may be mentioned:

(1) Homopolymers or copolymers derived from acrylic or methacrylic esters or amides and comprising at least one of the units of formulas (I), (II), (III) or (IV):

NOT

\

R. R. in which:

R3, identical or different, denote a hydrogen atom or a CH3 radical;

A, identical or different, represent an alkyl group, linear or branched, from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, preferably 2 or 3 carbon atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R4, R5, R6 _> identical or different, represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms or a benzyl radical and preferably an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; Rl and R2, identical or different, represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and preferably methyl or ethyl;

X denotes an anion derived from a mineral or organic acid such as a methosulfate anion or a halide such as chloride or bromide.

The polymers of family (1) can also contain one or more units deriving from comonomers which can be chosen from the family of acrylamides, methacrylamides, diacetones, acrylamides, acrylamides and methacrylamides substituted on nitrogen by lower alkyls (C1 -C4) , acrylic or methacrylic acids or their esters, vinyllactams such as vinylpyrrolidone or vinylcaprolactam, vinyl esters. Thus, among these polymers of family (1), there may be mentioned:

- copolymers of acrylamide and of dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate quaternized with dimethyl sulphate or with a dimethyl hologenide, such as that sold under the name HERCOFLOC by the company HERCULES,

the copolymers of acrylamide and of methacryloyloxyethyltrimethylammonium chloride described for example in patent application EP-A-080976 and sold under the name BINA QUAT P 100 by the company CIBA GEIGY,

- the copolymer of acrylamide and methacryloyloxyethyltrimethylammonium ammonium methosulfate sold under the name RETEN by the company Hercules,

- vinylpyrrolidone / acrylate or methacrylate of dialkylaminoalkyl quaternized or not, such as the products sold under the name "GAFQUAT" by the company ISP such as for example "GAFQUAT 734" or "GAFQUAT 755" or else the products called "COPOLYMER 845, 958 and 937 ". These polymers are described in detail in French patents 2,077,143 and 2,393,573, - dimethyl amino ethyl methacrylate / vinylcaprolactam / vinylpyrrolidone terpolymers such as the product sold under the name GAFFIX VC 713 by the company ISP, - the vinylpyrrolidone / methacrylamidopropyl dimethylamine copolymer sold in particular under the name STYLEZE CC 10 by ISP,

- And vinylpyrrolidone / methacrylamide dimethylaminopropyl quaternized copolymers such as the product sold under the name "GAFQUAT HS 100" by the company ISP.

(2) Derivatives of cellulose ethers comprising quaternary ammonium groups described in French patent 1,492,597, and in particular the polymers marketed under the names "JR" (JR 400, JR 125, JR 30M) or "LR" (LR 400, LR 30M) by the Union Carbide Corporation. These polymers are also defined in the CTFA dictionary as quaternary ammoniums of hydroxyethylcellulose having reacted with an epoxide substituted by a trimethylammonium group.

(3) Cationic cellulose derivatives such as cellulose copolymers or cellulose derivatives grafted with a water-soluble quaternary ammonium monomer, and described in particular in US Pat. No. 4,131,576, such as hydroxyalkyl celluloses, such as hydroxymethyl- , hydroxyethyl- or hydroxypropyl celluloses grafted in particular with a salt of methacryloylethyl trimethylammonium, of methacrylmidopropyl trimethylammonium, of dimethyl-diallylammonium.

The marketed products meeting this definition are more particularly the products sold under the name "Celquat L 200" and "Celquat H 100" by the National Starch Company.

(4) The cationic polysaccharides described more particularly in US patents 3,589,578 and 4,031,307 such as guar gums containing cationic trialkylammonium groups. Guar gums modified with a salt (eg chloride) of 2,3-epoxypropyl trimethylammonium are used, for example.

Such products are marketed in particular under the trade names of JAGUAR C13 S, JAGUAR C 15, JAGUAR C 17 or JAGUAR C162 by the company MEYHALL. (5) Polymers consisting of piperazinyl units and divalent alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radicals with straight or branched chains, optionally interrupted by oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen atoms or by aromatic or heterocyclic rings, as well as the products of oxidation and / or quaternization of these polymers. Such polymers are described in particular in French patents 2,162,025 and 2,280,361.

(6) Water-soluble polyaminoamides prepared in particular by polycondensation of an acidic compound with a polyamine; these polyaminoamides can be crosslinked with an epihalohydrin, a diepoxide, a dianhydride, an unsaturated dianhydride, a bis-unsaturated derivative, a bis-halohydne, a bis-azetidinium, a bis-haloacyldiamine, a bis-halide of alkyl or also with an oligomer resulting from the reaction of a bifunctional compound reactive with a bis-halohydrin, a bis-azetidinium, a bis-haloacyldiamine, an alkyl bis-halide, an epilhalohydrin, a diepoxide or a bis-unsaturated derivative; the crosslinking agent being used in proportions ranging from 0.025 to 0.35 mole per amino group of the polyaminoamide; these polyaminoamides can be alkylated or if they contain one or more tertiary, quaternized amine functions. Such polymers are described in particular in French patents 2,252,840 and 2,368,508.

(7) Polyaminoamide derivatives resulting from the condensation of polyalkylene polyamines with polycarboxylic acids followed by alkylation by bifunctional agents. Mention may be made, for example, of the adipic acid-diacoylaminohydroxyalkoyldialoylene triamine polymers in which the alkyl radical contains from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and preferably denotes methyl, ethyl, propyl. Such polymers are described in particular in French patent 1,583,363. Among these derivatives, there may be mentioned more particularly the adipic acid / dimethylaminohydroxypropyl / diethylene triamine polymers sold under the name "Cartaretine F, F4 or F8" by the company Sandoz. (8) The polymers obtained by reaction of a polyalkylene polyamine comprising two primary amine groups and at least one secondary amine group with a dicarboxylic acid chosen from diglycolic acid and saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms. The molar ratio between the polyalkylene polylamine and the dicarboxylic acid being between 0.8: 1 and 1.4: 1; the resulting polyaminoamide being reacted with epichlorohydrin in a molar ratio of epichlorohydrin relative to the secondary amino group of the polyaminoamide of between 0.5: 1 and 1.8: 1. Such polymers are described in particular in the patents American 3,227,615 and 2,961,347.

Polymers of this type are in particular sold under the name "Hercosett 57" by the company Hercules Inc. or else under the name of "PD 170" or "Delsette 101" by the company Hercules in the case of the adipic acid copolymer / epoxypropyl / diethylenetriamine.

(9) Cyclopolymers of alkyl diallyl amine or dialkyl diallyl ammonium such as homopolymers or copolymers comprising, as main constituent of the chain, units corresponding to formulas (V) or (VI):

formulas in which k and t are equal to 0 or 1, the sum k + t being equal to 1; R ₉ denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical; R and R ₈ , independently of one another, denote an alkyl group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl group in which the alkyl group preferably has 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a lower amidoalkyl group (C1-C4), or R7 and Rg may denote jointly with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached , heterocyclic groups, such as piperidinyl or morpholinyl; R ₇ and Rg, independently of one another, preferably denote an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; Y ^" is an anion such as bromide, chloride, acetate, borate, citrate, tartrate, bisulfate, bisulfite, sulfate, phosphate. These polymers are described in particular in French patent 2,080,759 and in its certificate of addition 2,190,406. Among the polymers defined above, there may be mentioned more particularly the homopolymer of dimethyldiallylammonium chloride sold under the name "Merquat 100" by the company Calgon (and its low molecular weight average counterparts) and the chloride chloride copolymers diallyldimethylammonium and acrylamide marketed under the name "MERQUAT 550".

(10) The quaternary diammonium polymer containing recurring units corresponding to the formula:

^R 10 ^R 12

N + -A, - (VII)

1 '- N | + - B, ^η -

R „X" ^R 13 X ^" formula (VII) in which:

Rl0 _> Rl 1> R12 ^and l 3> identical or different, represent aliphatic, alicyclic, or arylaliphatic radicals containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms or lower hydroxyalkylaliphatic radicals, or else RJ Q. Rn _> R-12 and R13, together or separately, constitute with the nitrogen atoms to which they are attached heterocycles possibly containing a second heteroatom other than nitrogen or else RJ O. 11. R12 ^e * R13 represent a linear or branched C ^ -CQ alkyl radical substituted by a nitrile, ester, acyl, amide or -CO-O- R14-D or -CO-NH- R14-D group where R14 is an alkylene and D a quaternary ammonium group; A1 and B1 represent polymethylenic groups containing from 2 to 20 carbon atoms which may be linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, and which may contain, linked to or intercalated in the main chain, one or more aromatic rings, or one or more atoms of oxygen, sulfur or sulfoxide, sulfone, disulfide, amino, alkylamino, hydroxyl, quaternary ammonium, ureido, amide or ester groups, and X ^" denotes an anion derived from a mineral or organic acid; A1, Rio and R- | 2 can form with the two nitrogen atoms to which they are attached a piperazine ring; in addition if A1 denotes a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical, B1 can also denote a group - (CH2) n-CO -D-OC- (CH2) n- in which D denotes: a) a glycol residue of formula: -OZO-, where Z denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or a group corresponding to one of the following formulas: - (VS H2-CH ₂ -O) x-CH2-CH ₂ -

- [CH ₂ -CH (CH3) -O] y-CH ₂ -CH (CH3) - where x and y denote an integer from 1 to 4, representing a defined and unique degree of polymerization or any number from 1 to 4 representing an average degree of polymerization; b) a bis-secondary diamine residue such as a piperazine derivative; c) a bis-primary diamine residue of formula: -NH-Y-NH-, where Y denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical, or else the bivalent radical

-CH2-CH2-S-S-CH2-CH2-; d) a ureylene group of formula: -NH-CO-NH-. Preferably, X ~ is an anion such as chloride or bromide.

These polymers have a number average molecular weight generally between 1000 and 100,000.

Polymers of this type are described in particular in French patents 2,320,330, 2,270,846, 2,316,271, 2,336,434 and 2,413,907 and US patents 2,273,780, 2,375,853, 2,388,614, 2,454,547 , 3.206.462, 2.261.002, 2.271.378, 3.874.870, 4.001.432, 3.929.990, 3.966.904, 4.005.193, 4.025.617, 4.025.627, 4.025.653, 4.026.945 and 4.027 .020. It is possible to use more particularly the polymers which consist of recurring units corresponding to the following formula (VIII):

in which Rio, ^R 11. ^R 12 ^e * ^R 13, identical or different, denote an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms approximately, n and p are whole numbers varying from 2 to 20 approximately and, X - is an anion derived from a mineral or organic acid.

(11) Quaternary polyammonium polymers consisting of units of formula (IX):

-

(IX) in which: p denotes an integer varying from 1 to 6 approximately, D can be zero or can represent a group - (CH2) r - O - in which r denotes a number equal to 4 or 7, and X ^" is an anion derived from a mineral or organic acid.

The cationic polymers comprising units of formula (IX) are described in particular in patent application EP-A-122 324 and can be prepared according to the methods described in US patents No. 4,157,388, 4,390,689, 4,702,906 , 4,719,282.

Among these polymers, those of molecular mass measured by NMR of Carbon 13 less than 100,000 are preferred, and in the formula of which: p is equal to 3, and, a) D represents a group - (CH2k - CO -, X denotes a chlorine atom, the molecular mass measured by NMR of Carbon 13 (NMR ^{1 3} C) being approximately 5600; a polymer of this type is proposed by company MIRANOL under the name of MIRAPOL-AD1, b) D represents a group - (CH2) 7 - CO -, X denotes a chlorine atom, the molecular mass measured by NMR of Carbon 13 (NMR ^ c) being approximately 8100; a polymer of this type is offered by the company MIRANOL under the name of MIRAPOL-AZ1, c) D denotes the value zero, X denotes a chlorine atom, the molecular mass measured by NMR of Carbon 13, (NMR ^{1 3} C) being about 25,500; a polymer of this type is sold by the company MIRANOL under the name MIRAPOL-A15, d) a "Block Copolymer" formed of units corresponding to the polymers described in paragraphs a) and c), offered by the company MIRANOL under the names MIRAPOL- 9, (RMN ^ ³ C molecular weight, about 7800) MIRAPOL-175, (molecular weight

^{1 3} C NMR, about 8000) MIRAPOL-95, ( ^{1 3} C NMR molecular weight, about 12500).

More particularly still, according to the invention, the polymer with units of formula (IX) in which p is equal to 3 is preferred, D denotes the value zero, X denotes a chlorine atom, the molecular mass measured by NMR of Carbon 13,

(NMR ^{1 3} C) being approximately 25500.

(12) Quaternary polymers of vinylpyrrolidone and of vinylimidazole such as for example the products marketed under the names Luviquat FC 905, FC 550 and FC 370 by the company B.A.S.F.

(13) Polyamines such as Polyquart H sold by HENKEL, referenced under the name of "POLYETHYLENEGLYCOL (15) TALLOW POLYAMINE" in the CTFA dictionary.

(14) Crosslinked polymers of methacryloyioxyalkyl (Cι-C4) trialkyl (Cι- C4) ammonium salts such as the polymers obtained by homopolymerization of dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate quaternized with methyl chloride, or by copolymerization of acrylamide with dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate quaternized with methyl chloride, homo or copolymerization being followed by crosslinking with an olefinically unsaturated compound, in particular methylene bis acrylamide . One can more particularly use a crosslinked acrylamide / methacryloyloxyethyltrimethylammonium chloride copolymer (20/80 by weight) in the form of a dispersion containing 50% by weight of said copolymer in mineral oil. This dispersion is marketed under the name of

"SALCARE® SC 92" by the company ALLIED COLLOIDS. It is also possible to use a crosslinked homopolymer of methacryloyloxyethyl trimethylammonium chloride containing approximately 50% by weight of the homopolymer in mineral oil or in a liquid ester. These dispersions are marketed under the names of "SALCARE® SC 95" and "SALCARE® SC 96" by the company ALLIED COLLOIDS.

Other cationic polymers which can be used in the context of the invention are polyalkyleneimines, in particular polyethyleneimines, polymers containing vinylpyridine or vinylpyridinium units, polyamine and epichlorohydrin condensates, quaternary polyuretylenes and chitin derivatives.

Among all the cationic polymers capable of being used in the context of the present invention, it is preferred to use the polymers of families (1), (9), (10) (11) and (14) and even more preferably the polymers of formulas (W) and (U) below:

CH. CH.

- [- M * - (CH ₂ ) ₃ -N ⁺ - CH ₂ ) ₆ (W)

CI- '"* | CI- CH ₃ CH ₃ and in particular those whose molecular weight, determined by gel permeation chromatography, is between 9500 and 9900; CH. C ₂ H ₅

i- N-- (CH ₂ ) ₃ - ^ ⁺ - CH ₂ ⁾ ₃ (U)

Br I Br

CH ₃ C ₂ H ₅ and in particular those whose molecular weight, determined by gel permeation chromatography, is approximately 1200.

The concentration of cationic polymer in the compositions according to the present invention can vary from 0.01 to 10% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition, preferably from 0.05 to 5% and even more preferably from 0.1 to 3%.

The amphoteric polymers which can be used in accordance with the present invention can be chosen from polymers comprising K and M units distributed statistically in the polymer chain, where K denotes a unit derived from a monomer comprising at least one basic nitrogen atom and M denotes a unit deriving from an acid monomer comprising one or more carboxylic or sulphonic groups, or else K and M may denote groups deriving from zwitterionic monomers of carboxybetaines or of sulphobetaines; K and M can also denote a cationic polymer chain comprising primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary amine groups, in which at least one of the amine groups carries a carboxylic or sulphonic group linked via a hydrocarbon radical, or although K and M form part of a chain of a polymer with an α, β-dicarboxylic ethylene unit, one of the carboxyl groups of which has been reacted with a polyamine comprising one or more primary or secondary amine groups.

The amphoteric film-forming polymers corresponding to the definition given above which are more particularly preferred are chosen from the following polymers:

(1) The polymers resulting from the copolymerization of a monomer derived from a vinyl compound carrying a carboxylic group such as more particularly acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, maleic acid, alpha-chloroacrylic acid, and of a basic monomer derived of a substituted vinyl compound containing at least one basic atom such as more particularly the dialkylaminoalkylmethacrylate and acrylate, the dialkylaminoalkylmethacrylamide and acrylamide. Such compounds are described in US Pat. No. 3,836,537. Mention may also be made of the sodium acrylate / acrylamide propyl trimethyl ammonium chloride copolymer sold under the name POLYQUART KE 3033 by the company HENKEL.

The vinyl compound can also be a dialkyldiallylammonium salt such as dimethyldiallylammonium chloride. Copolymers of acrylic acid and of the latter monomer are available under the names

MERQUAT 280, MERQUAT 295 and MERQUAT PLUS 3330 by the company CALGON.

(2) Polymers comprising units derived from: a) at least one monomer chosen from acrylamides or methacrylamides substituted on nitrogen by an alkyl radical, b) from at least one acidic comonomer containing one or more carboxylic groups reactants, and c) at least one basic comonomer such as esters with primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary amine substituents of acrylic and methacrylic acids and the quaternization product of dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate with dimethyl or diethyl sulfate.

The N-substituted acrylamides or methacrylamides more particularly preferred according to the invention are the groups in which the alkyl radicals contain from 2 to 12 carbon atoms and more particularly N-ethylacrylamide, N-tertiobutyl-acrylamide, N-tertiooctyl-acrylamide , N-octylacrylamide, N-decylacrylamide, N-dodecylacrylamide and the corresponding methacrylamides.

The acid comonomers are chosen more particularly from acrylic, methacrylic, crotonic, itaconic, maleic, fumaric acids as well as alkyl monoesters having 1 to 4 carbon atoms of maleic or fumaric acids or anhydrides. The preferred basic comonomers are aminoethyl, butyl aminoethyl, N, N'-dimethylaminoethyl, N-tert-butylaminoethyl methacrylates. Copolymers are particularly used whose name CTFA (4th Ed., 1991) is Octylacrylamide / acrylates / butylaminoethylmethacrylate copolymer such as the products sold under the name AMPHOMER or LOVOCRYL 47 by the company NATIONAL STARCH.

(3) Crosslinked and alkylated polyaminoamides partially or totally derived from polyaminoamides of general formula:

- ^ CO - R ₁₉ - CO - Z -] - (X)

in which Rj g represents a divalent radical derived from a saturated dicarboxylic acid, from a mono or dicarboxylic acid with ethylene double bond, from an ester of a lower alkanol having 1 to 6 carbon atoms of these acids or d 'a radical derived from the addition of any one of said acids with a primary bis or secondary bis amino, and Z denotes a radical of a bis-primary, mono or bis-secondary polyalkylene polyamine and preferably represents: a ) in the proportions of 60 to 100 mol%, the radical

where x = 2 and p = 2 or 3, or else x = 3 and p = 2 this radical deriving from diethylene triamine, triethylene tetraamine or dipropylene triamine; b) in the proportions of 0 to 40 mol% the radical (XI) above, in which x = 2 and p = 1 and which derives from ethylenediamine, or the radical deriving from piperazine:

\ / c) in the proportions of 0 to 20 mol% of the radical -NH- (CH2) 6-NH- deriving from hexamethylenediamine, these polyaminoamines being crosslinked by addition of a bifunctional crosslinking agent chosen from epihalohydrins, diepoxides, dianhydrides, bis unsaturated derivatives, using 0.025 to 0.35 mole of crosslinking agent by amino group of the polyaminoamide and alkylated by the action of acrylic acid, chloracetic acid or an alkane sultone or their salts. The saturated carboxylic acids are preferably chosen from acids having 6 to 10 carbon atoms such as adipic, trimethyl-2,2,4-adipic acid and trimethyl-2,4,4-adipic, terephthalic acid, ethylenic double bond such as for example acrylic, methacrylic, itaconic acids.

The alkane sultones used in the alkylation are preferably propane or butane sultone, the salts of the alkylating agents are preferably the sodium or potassium salts.

(4) Polymers comprising zwitterionic units of formula:

in which R20 denotes a polymerizable unsaturated group such as an acrylate, methacrylate, acrylamide or methacrylamide group, y and z represent an integer from 1 to 3, R21 and R22 represent a hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or propyl atom, R23 and R24 represent one. hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical such that the sum of the carbon atoms in R23 and R24 does not exceed 10. The polymers comprising such units may also contain units derived from non-zwitterionic monomers such as acrylate or dimethyl or diethylaminoethyl methacrylate or alkyl acrylates or methacrylates, acrylamides or methacrylamides or vinyl acetate.

By way of example, there may be mentioned the copolymer of methyl methacrylate / methyl dimethyl-carboxymethylammonio-ethyl methacrylate such as the product sold under the name DIAFORMER Z301 by the company SANDOZ.

(5) polymers derived from chitosan comprising monomer units corresponding to formulas (XIII), (XIV), (XV) below: ° -

R ^ -COOH

(XIII) (XIV)

(XV)

the motif (XIII) being present in proportions of between 0 and 30%, the motif (XIV) in proportions of between 5 and 50% and the motif F in proportions of between 30 and 90%, it being understood that in this unit (XV), R ₂₅ represents a radical of formula:

R 27 R 28 26 C - (0) _q - C-

in which if q = 0, R26, 27 ^and 28- identical or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, a methyl, hydroxyl, acetoxy or amino residue, a monoalkoyiamine residue or a dialkoyiamine residue optionally interrupted by one or more atoms of nitrogen and / or optionally substituted by one or more amino, hydroxyl, carboxyl, alkylthio or sulfonic groups, an alkylthio residue in which the aicoyl group carries an amino residue, at least one of the radicals R2, R27 and R28 being in this case a hydrogen atom; or if q = 1, R26 _> R27 and R28 each represent a hydrogen atom, as well as the salts formed by these compounds with bases or acids.

(6) Polymers derived from the N-carboxyalkylation of chitosan such as N-carboxymethyl chitosan or N-carboxybutyl chitosan sold under the name "EVALSAN" by the company JAN DEKKER.

(7) The polymers corresponding to the general formula (XI) such as those described for example in French patent 1,400,366: in which R29 represents a hydrogen atom, a CH3O radical, CH3CH2O, phenyl, R30 denotes hydrogen or a lower alkyl radical such as methyl, ethyl, R3 denotes hydrogen or a lower alkyl radical such as methyl, ethyl, R32 denotes a lower alkyl radical such as methyl, ethyl or a radical corresponding to the formula: -R33-N (R3i) 2, R33 representing a group -CH2-CH2-, -CH2-CH2-CH2-, -CH2-CH ( CH3) -, R31 having the meanings mentioned above, as well as the higher homologs of these radicals and containing up to 6 carbon atoms.

(8) Amphoteric polymers of the type -D-X-D-X- chosen from: a) the polymers obtained by the action of chloracetic acid or sodium chloroacetate on the compounds comprising at least one unit of formula:

-D-X-D-X-D- (XVII) where D denotes a radical

\ / and X denotes the symbol E or E ', E or E', which are identical or different, denote a bivalent radical which is an alkylene radical with a straight or branched chain containing up to 7 carbon atoms in the unsubstituted main chain or substituted by hydroxyl groups and which may also contain oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur atoms, 1 to 3 aromatic and / or heterocyclic rings; the oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur atoms being present in the form of ether, thioether, sulfoxide, sulfone, sulfonium, alkylamine, alkenylamine groups, hydroxyl groups, benzylamine, amine oxide, quaternary ammonium, amide, imide, alcohol, ester and / or urethane;

b) polymers of formula:

-D-X-D-X- (XVIII) where D denotes a radical

\

NOT-

\ / and X denotes the symbol E or E 'and at least once E'; E having the meaning indicated above and E 'is a bivalent radical which is a straight or branched chain alkylene radical having up to 7 carbon atoms in the main chain, substituted or not by one or more hydroxyl radicals and comprising a or more nitrogen atoms, the nitrogen atom being substituted by an alkyl chain optionally interrupted by an oxygen atom and necessarily having one or more carboxyl functions or one or more hydroxyl functions and betainized by reaction with chloracetic acid or sodium chloracetate.

(9) Alkyl (Cι-C5) vinyl ether / maleic anhydride copolymers partially modified by semiamidification with an N, N-dialkylaminoalkylamine such as N, N-dimethylaminopropylamine or by semiesterification with an N, N-dialcanolamine. These copolymers can also contain other vinyl comonomers such as vinylcaprolactam.

The amphoteric polymers which are particularly preferred according to the invention are those of the family (1). According to the invention, the amphoteric polymer (s) can represent from 0.01% to 10% by weight, preferably from 0.05% to 5% by weight, and even more preferably from 0.1% to 3% by weight , of the total weight of the composition.

The compositions of the invention preferably comprise one or more surfactants.

The surfactant (s) can be chosen either, alone or as a mixture, from anionic, amphoteric, nonionic, zwitterionic and cationic surfactants.

The surfactants which are suitable for carrying out the present invention are in particular the following:

(i) Anionic surfactant (s):

By way of example of anionic surfactants which can be used, alone or as mixtures, in the context of the present invention, there may be mentioned in particular (non-limiting list) the salts (in particular alkaline salts, in particular sodium salts, ammonium salts, amine salts, amino alcohol salts or magnesium salts) of the following compounds: alkylsulphates, alkylethersulphates, alkylamidoethersulphates, alkylarylpolyethersulphates, monoglycerides sulphates; alkylsulfonates, alkylphosphates, alkylamidesulfonates, alkylarylsulfonates, α-olefin-sulfonates, paraffin-sulfonates; alkyl (Cβ-C ₂ ) sulfosuccinates, alkyl (C ₆ -C ₂ ) ethersulfosuccinates, alkyl (C ₆ -C ₂₄ ) amidesulfosuccinates; (C ₆ -C ₂ ) alkyl sulfoacetates; acy! (C ₆ -C ₂ ) sarcosinates and acyI (Cβ-C ₂ ) glutamates. It is also possible to use the alkyl esters (C6-C ₂ ) carboxylic polyglycosides such as the alkylglucoside citrates, the alkylpolyglycoside tartrate and the alkylpolyglycoside sulfosuccinates., The alkylsulfosuccinamates; acylisethionates and N-acyltau spleens, the alkyl or acyl radical of all these different compounds preferably containing from 12 to 20 carbon atoms, and the aryl radical preferably denoting a phenyl or benzyl group. Among the anionic surfactants which can still be used, mention may also be made of the salts of fatty acids such as the salts of oleic, ricinoleic and palmitic acids, stearic acid from coconut oil or hydrogenated coconut oil; acyl lactylates whose acyl radical contains 8 to 20 carbon atoms. It is also possible to use the alkyl D galactoside uronic acids and their salts, the polyoxyalkylenated (C ₆ -C ₂₄ ) alkyl ether carboxylic acids, the polyoxyalkylenated (C ₆ - C ₂ ) aryl ether carboxylic acids, the alkyl (C ₆ -C ₂₄ ) polyoxyalkylenated carboxylic amido ether and their salts, in particular those comprising from 2 to 50 alkylene oxide groups, in particular ethylene, and their mixtures.

(ii) Nonionic surfactant (s):

Non-ionic surfactants are also well known compounds per se (see in particular in this regard "Handbook of Surfactants" by MR PORTER, Blackie & Son editions (Glasgow and London), 1991, pp 116-178) and their nature is not, in the context of the present invention, critical. Thus, they can in particular be chosen from (nonlimiting list) alcohols, alpha-diols, polyethoxylated, polypropoxylated alkylphenols, having a fatty chain comprising for example 8 to 18 carbon atoms, the number of ethylene oxide groups or propylene oxide which can range in particular from 2 to 50. Mention may also be made of copolymers of ethylene oxide and of propylene, condensates of ethylene oxide and of propylene on fatty alcohols; polyethoxylated fatty amides preferably having from 2 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide, polyglycerolated fatty amides comprising on average 1 to 5 glycerol groups and in particular 1, 5 to 4; esters of oxyethylenated sorbitan fatty acids having from 2 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide; sucrose fatty acid esters, polyethylene glycol fatty acid esters, alkylpolyglycosides, N-alkyl glucamine derivatives, amine oxides such as alkyl oxides (CI QC 4) amines or oxides of N-acylaminopropylmorpholine. It will be noted that the alkylpolyglycosides constitute nonionic surfactants which are particularly well suited to the present invention.

(iii) Amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactant (s): Amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactants, the nature of which is not critical in the context of the present invention, may in particular be (non-limiting list) derivatives of aliphatic secondary or tertiary amines, in which the aliphatic radical is a chain linear or branched having 8 to 18 carbon atoms and containing at least one water-soluble anionic group (for example carboxylate, sulfonate, sulfate, phosphate or phosphonate); mention may also be made of (C8-C20) alkyl betaines, sulfobetaines, (C8-C20) alkyl amidoalkyl (C -CQ) betaines or (Cβ-C20) amidoalkyl (C1-C5) sulfobetaines alkyl.

Among the amine derivatives, mention may be made of the products sold under the name Miranol, as described in patents US-2,528,378 and US-2,781,354 and classified in the CTFA dictionary, 3rd edition, 1982, under the names Amphocarboxyglycinates and Amphocarboxypropionates of respective structures:

R34 -CONHCH ₂ CH ₂ -N (R35) (R36) (CH ₂ COO-) in which: R34 denotes an alkyl radical of an acid R34-COOH present in hydrolyzed coconut oil, a heptyl, nonyl or undecyl, R35 denotes a beta-hydroxyethyl group and R35 denotes a carboxymethyl group; and R ₃ 4'-CONHCH ₂ CH2-N (B) (C) in which:

B represents -CH2CH2OX ', C represents - (CH2) _Z -Y', with z = 1 or 2, X 'denotes the group -CH2CH2-COOH or a hydrogen atom Y' denotes -COOH or the radical -CH ₂ - CHOH - SO3H

R34 ′ denotes an alkyl radical of an acid R37 -COOH present in coconut oil or in hydrolyzed linseed oil, an alkyl radical, in particular C7, Cg, Cj 1 or C-13, an alkyl radical in C-17 and its iso form, an unsaturated C-J7 radical. These compounds are classified in the CTFA dictionary, 5th edition, 1993, under the names Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate, Disodium Lauroampho- diacetate, Disodium Caprylamphodiacetate, Disodium Capryloamphodiacetate, Disodium Cocoamphodipropionate, Disodium Lauroamphodipropionate, Disodium Capryl. Lauroampho- dipropionic acid, Cocoamphodipropionic acid.

By way of example, mention may be made of the cocoamphodiacetate sold under the trade name MIRANOL® C2M concentrated by the company RHODIA CHIMIE.

(iv) Cationic surfactants:

Among the cationic surfactants that may be mentioned in particular (nonlimiting list): the salts of primary, secondary or tertiary fatty amines, optionally polyoxyalkylenated; quaternary ammonium salts such as chlorides or bromides of tetraalkylammonium, alkylamidoalkyltrialkylammonium, trialkylbenzylammonium, trialkylhydroxyalkylammonium or alkylpyridinium; imidazoline derivatives; or amine oxides of a cationic nature.

The amounts of surfactants present in the ready-to-use composition according to the invention can vary from 0.01 to 40% and preferably from 0.1 to 30% of the total weight of the composition.

The compositions according to the invention may also contain other rheology adjusting agents such as cellulosic thickeners

(hydroxyethylcellulose, hydroxypropylcellulose, carboxymethylcellulose, etc.), guar gum and its derivatives (hydroxypropylguar, etc.), gums of microbial origin (xanthan gum, scleroglucan gum, etc.), synthetic thickeners such as crosslinked homopolymers of acrylic acid ^or acrylamidopropanesulfonic acid and ionic or nonionic associative polymers such as polymers sold under the names Pemulen TR1 or TR2 by the company Goodrich, Salcare SC90 by the company ALLIED COLLOIDS, ACULYN 22, 28, 33, 44, or 46 by the company ROHM & HAAS and ELFACOS T210 and T212 by the company AKZO.

These additional thickeners can represent from 0.05 to 10% by weight of the total weight of the composition.

The compositions according to the invention also advantageously contain an alkaline agent.

Among the basifying agents, there may be mentioned, by way of example, ammonia, ammonium chloride, alkali or alkaline earth carbonates, alkali or alkaline earth silicates, alkaline or alkaline earth phosphates, alkanolamines such as mono-, di- and triethanolamines as well as their derivatives, sodium or potassium hydroxides and the compounds of formula (XIX) below:

wherein R is a propylene residue optionally substituted by a hydroxyl group or a C-ι-C alkyl radical; R ₃₈ , R ₃₉ , R ₄ o and R ₄ ι, identical or different,. Represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical in Cι-C ₄ or hydroxyalkyl in C-ι-C.

The compositions of the invention can also contain sequestering agents such as for example ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA).

When the compositions containing the oxidizing agent and the polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are in anhydrous form (powder or cream), they contain the main agents and additives mentioned above in the form of essentially anhydrous solids or liquids. They can also contain mineral or organic fillers such as silica or clays. They can also contain binders such as vinylpyrrolidone, oils or waxes, polyalkylene glycols or derivatives of polyalkylene glycols. They may also contain lubricants such as polyol stearates or alkali or alkaline earth metal sterates, as well as coloring or matifying agents such as titanium oxides.

When the medium containing the oxidizing agent is an aqueous medium, it may optionally contain cosmetically acceptable organic solvents, including more particularly, alcohols such as ethyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, benzyl alcohol, and phenylethyl alcohol, or glycols or glycol ethers such as, for example, monomethyl, monoethyl and monobutyl ethers of ethyleneglycol, propyleneglycol or its ethers such as, for example, propylene glycol monomethyl ether, butylene glycol, dipropylene glycol as well as the diethylene glycol alkyl ethers such as, for example, the monoethyl ether or the monobutyl ether of diethylene glycol, in concentrations of between approximately 0.5 and 20% and, preferably, between approximately 2 and 10% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.

The bleaching composition according to the invention also contains an effective amount of other agents, which have previously been known in bleaching, such as various usual adjuvants such as volatile or non-volatile, cyclic or linear or branched, organomodified silicones (in particular by amino groups ) or not organomodified, preservatives, ceramides, waxes or oils, vegetable, mineral or synthetic, acids and in particular HA A etc.

Of course, those skilled in the art will take care to choose the optional compound (s) mentioned above, so that the advantageous properties intrinsically attached to the bleaching composition according to the invention are not, or not substantially, altered by the planned addition (s).

The pH of the ready-to-use composition is generally between the values 4 and 12. It is preferably between 7 and 11, 5 and even more preferably between 8 and 11. Preferably, the bleaching process according to the invention consists in applying the ready-to-use oxidizing composition to the dry or wet keratin fibers, and to leaving it to act for a pause time varying, preferably, from 1 to 60 minutes approximately, and more preferably 10 to 45 minutes approximately, to rinse the fibers, then optionally to wash them in shampoo, then to rinse them again, and to dry them.

Concrete examples illustrating the invention are indicated below, without however being limiting in nature.

EXAMPLE 1:

The following ready-to-use aqueous bleaching composition was prepared (expressed in grams):

MA * = Active Matter

The above bleaching composition was applied and left for 45 minutes under a helmet on natural hair, then rinsed thoroughly with water. We obtained a regular lightening of the hair. EXAMPLE 2:

The following bleaching composition was prepared (expressed in grams):

40 g of the above anhydrous composition were mixed with 80 g of the following aqueous composition:

A ready-to-use bleaching cream was then obtained which, applied and left for 45 minutes under a helmet, made it possible to obtain a powerful and uniform bleaching of dark natural hair.

Claims

1. Ready-to-use composition for bleaching keratin fibers, in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising, in a medium suitable for bleaching, at least one oxidizing agent, characterized in that it contains in addition at least one thickening polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton.

2. Composition according to Claim 1, characterized in that the aminoplast-ether polymer (s) are chosen from those containing at least one unit of structure (I) below:

in which: -AMP is an aminoplast residue with alkylene units,

-R denotes a hydrogen atom, a C-1C4 alkyl radical or an acyl radical

C1 C4,

-RO-i is a divalent alkyleneoxy residue,

-p denotes a positive integer, the OR group or groups being linked to the alkylene units of the AMP residue.

3. Composition according to claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the polymer or polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are chosen from those containing at least one unit of structure (II) below:

in which -AMP, R, RO- | and p have the same meaning as in claim 2,

4. Composition according to Claim 3, characterized in that the aminoplast-ether polymer (s) are chosen from the following polymers of structure (III) or (IIIb):

R2- l lbis)

in which :

AMP, R, RO- | , RO2, p and q have the same meaning as in the claims

2 and 3,

R2 or R3, identical or different, represent a terminal group which can denote a hydrogen atom, a group RO- | H, a RO2H group, an AMP (OR) p group or any monofunctional group such as alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkylaryl, alkyloxyalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, cycloalkoxyalkyl, a being a number greater than 1 and preferably greater than 2 .

5. Composition according to any one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the aminoplast residues carrying their OR groups are chosen from those of structures (IV) to (XV) below:

R having the same meaning as in claim 2, R1 denotes C1C4 alkyl, y is a number at least equal to 2, x denotes 0 or 1.

6. Composition according to any one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the aminoplast residues carrying their OR groups are chosen from those of structure (XVI) below:

in which R, p, and x have the same meanings as in claims 2 and 5.

7. Composition according to any one of claims 2 to 6, characterized in that the alkyleneoxy residues are those corresponding to the diols of general formula (XVII) below:

HO- (ZO) y- (Z1 (Z2O) w) t- (Z'O) y'-Z3OH (XVII), y and y 'being numbers ranging from 0 to 1000, t and w being numbers ranging from 0 to 10, Z, Z ', Z2 and Z3 are C2C4 alkylene radicals and preferably radicals

-CH2-CH (Z4) - and -CH2-CH (Z4) -CH2-, Z1 being a linear or cyclic radical, branched or not, aromatic or not, comprising or not one or more heteroatoms and having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms, Z4 denoting a hydrogen atom or a C1 C4 alkyl radical or a radical C1 C3 acyl, it being understood that at least one of the radicals Z4 of the radicals Z, Z ',

Z2 and Z3 is different from acyl.

8. Composition according to Claim 7, characterized in that the radical Z4 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical.

9. Composition according to Claims 7 and 8, characterized in that t = 0 and that Z, Z 'and Z3 denote -CH2CH2-, at least one of y or y' being different from O.

10. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are chosen from the following products:

PEG-180 / Octoxynol-40 / TMMG Copolymer, PEG-180 / Laureth-50 / TMMG Copolymer, Polyether-1.

11. Composition according to any one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are used in an amount which can vary from 0.01 to 10% by weight of the total weight of the composition.

12. Composition according to claim 11, characterized in that the polymers with an aminoplast-ether skeleton are used in an amount which can vary from 0.1 to 5% by weight of the total weight of the composition.

13. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the oxidizing agent or agents are chosen from hydrogen peroxide and the compounds releasing hydrogen peroxide by hydrolysis such as urea peroxide and persalts, chlorites, enzymatic systems generating oxidizing species and organic peroxides.

14. Composition according to claim 13, characterized in that the persalt is a persulfate or a perborate of alkali or alkaline earth metal.

15. Composition according to claim 13, characterized in that the enzymatic system is an oxidoreductase with two electrons associated with its donor in the presence of air.

16. Composition according to claim 15, characterized in that the oxidoreductase is uricase and its donor uric acid.

17. Composition according to claim 13, characterized in that the concentration of hydrogen peroxide varies from 2 to 40 volumes.

18. Composition according to Claim 13, characterized in that the concentration of oxidizing compounds can vary from 0.1 to 25% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.

19. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it also contains direct dyes.

20. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it also contains at least one cationic or amphoteric polymer.

21. Composition according to Claim 20, characterized in that the cationic polymer is a quaternary polyammonium polymer consisting of recurring units corresponding to the following formula (W): CH. CH,

{- N ± - (CH ₂ ) ₃ -N ⁺ - (CH ₂ ) ₆ (W) cι- | Cr CH, CH ₃

22. Composition according to Claim 20, characterized in that the cationic polymer is a quaternary polyammonium polymer consisting of recurring units corresponding to the following formula (U):

CH ₃ C ₂ H ₅

-E- N ^ - (CH ₂ ) ₃ -N ⁺ - (CH ₂ ) ₃ (U)

Br i Br

CH ₃ C ₂ H ₅

23. Composition according to claim 20, characterized in that the amphoteric polymer is a copolymer comprising at least as monomers of acrylic acid and a dimethyldiallylammonium salt.

24. Composition according to any one of claims 20 to 23, characterized in that the cationic or amphoteric polymer (s) represent from 0.01% to 10%, preferably from 0.05% to 5%, and even more preferably from 0.1% to 3% by weight, of the total weight of the composition.

25. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it contains at least one surfactant chosen from anionic, cationic, nonionic or amphoteric surfactants.

26. Composition according to Claim 25, characterized in that the surfactants represent 0.01 to 40% and preferably from 0.1 to 30% by weight, of the total weight of the composition.

27. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it contains at least one additional thickening agent.

28. Composition according to claim 27, characterized in that the additional thickening agent is a cellulose derivative, a guar derivative, a gum of microbial origin, a synthetic thickener.

29. Composition according to claims 27-28, characterized in that the additional thickening agent (s) represent 0.05 to 10% by weight of the total weight of the composition.

30. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it also contains at least one alkaline agent in amounts ranging from 0.05 to 30% by weight of the total weight of the composition.

31. Composition according to claim 30, characterized in that the basifying agent is chosen from, ammonia, ammonium chloride, alkali or alkaline earth carbonates, alkali or alkaline earth silicates, alkaline phosphates or alkaline-earth, alkanolamines such as mono-, di- and triethanolamines as well as their derivatives, sodium or potassium hydroxides and the compounds of formula (XIX) below:

R 38 \. R 40

N - R - N (XIX)

R ₃₉ - "^ ^R 41

in which R is a propylene residue optionally substituted by a hydroxyl group or a Cι-C ₄ alkyl radical; R ₃₈ , R ₃₉ , R ₄₀ and R ₄₁ , which may be identical or different, represent a hydrogen atom, a CC ₄ alkyl radical or a CC ₄ hydroxyalkyl radical.

32. Composition according to any one of claims 1 to 31, characterized in that it is obtained by extemporaneous mixing at the time of use an anhydrous composition containing at least one oxidizing agent and at least one aqueous composition, at least one of the anhydrous or aqueous compositions containing at least one polymer with an aminoplast-ether backbone.

33. Composition according to claim 32, characterized in that the anhydrous composition is in pulverulent form.

34. Composition according to claims 32-33, characterized in that the anhydrous composition contains at least one additive chosen from mineral or organic fillers such as silica or clays, binders such as vinylpyrrolidone, oils or waxes , polyalkylene glycols or derivatives of polyalkylene glycols, lubricants such as polyol stearates or stearates of alkali or alkaline earth metals and coloring or matifying agents such as titanium oxides.

35. Composition according to claim 34, characterized in that each of the additives can be present at a concentration ranging from 0 to 30% by weight of the total weight of the composition.

36. Composition according to any one of claims 1 to 31, characterized in that it is aqueous.

37. Composition according to claim 36, characterized in that the aqueous medium contains one or more organic solvents.

38. Composition according to claim 37, characterized in that the concentration of solvent (s) varies from 0.5 to 20% and, preferably, from 2 to 10% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.

39. Composition according to any one of claims 36-38, characterized in that the aqueous medium contains hydrogen peroxide.

40. Composition according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the composition has a pH ranging from 4 to 12, preferably from 7 to 11, 5 and more preferably from 8 to 11.

41. Composition according to claim 32, characterized in that the polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton is present in an aqueous composition.

42. Process for bleaching keratin fibers, in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, consisting in applying to the fibers, dry or wet, a ready-to-use composition containing, in a medium suitable for bleaching, at least an oxidizing agent and at least one polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton defined in any one of claims 1 to 12, and allowing it to act for a pause time varying from 1 to 60 minutes, and preferably from 10 to 45 minutes , rinse the fibers, possibly wash them in shampoo, then rinse them again, and dry them.

43. Device with two compartments or “Kit” for bleaching keratin fibers and in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, characterized in that the first compartment contains at least one powder or an aqueous composition, and the second compartment an aqueous composition, at least one of the two compartments containing at least one oxidizing agent and at least one of the two compartments containing at least one polymer with an aminoplast-ether skeleton.